A blog about my experience with the Community Stewardship Program at the Beechwood Wetland site (and the surrounding area) along the Don River in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There will be pictures, anecdotes and garlic mustard galore.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

I have done a spectacular job over the last two nights, if I do say so myself:

(That's a mountain of garlic mustard from the once-mighty patch at the north end. It may not take me all summer after all.) This gets me out of pollinator monitoring for the rest of the season, okay?

This spider is guarding its egg sac in the equipment box:

To round out my evening, I scored a beaver near Pottery Road. It swam around a bit, got out and explored the bank, then checked out that little inlet just north of the bridge. It didn't like what it found, and swam off downriver again.